I now put the whole Arydia game back into the box. What I didn't do is resetting the game. Arydia is a game which changes while you play it. Map hexes get turned over when exploring them, cards move from active to inactive or banished, additional game components are unveiled during the campaign. We have a big plastic bag full of cardboard tokens representing gear and other stuff we used and discarded during the game. Arydia is a "green legacy" game, so none of the changes are really permanent. It is possible to reset the game and put everything back where it was at the start of the game. The problem is that this would take hours of work, and I am not really motivated to do that.

I think we played through over 90% of the content of Arydia. Playing the game again would follow largely the exact same story, even if the order or individual battles could play differently. A second playthrough would certainly be a lot less interesting than the first playthrough. And as my board game library resembles my Steam library, too many games - too little time, I don't really see me playing Arydia a second time, even if I enjoyed the first campaign.

Unlike a Steam game I played and don't plan to come back to, a board game takes up physical space. Arydia is a huge box weighing 11 kg. I wouldn't even want to sell it used on Ebay or elsewhere, as I don't want to ship such a huge box. And with the game being in a state where it would need hours of work to reset, I doubt there would be much interest for it anyway.

So I am currently leaning towards throwing the game away. Maybe keep some of the materials like the painted miniatures for use elsewhere, and sort the rest into plastic and paper waste. But that feels somewhat ungrateful towards a game we had a lot of fun with. On the other side, I can't have too many games I'll never play again block all of my shelf space.